hello welcome to the programme. russia says its forces have completed the capture of soledar , a salt mining town in eastern ukraine that s been the focus of intense fighting. these are the latest aerial shots of the town. as you can see, it has been completely flattened from the relentless pounding by russian forces. after six months of russian military setbacks it would be the first ukrainan town to be captured sincejuly. but ukraine s military denies that soledar has fallen and says that the fighting is still going on. the defence ministry in moscow said the capture of soledar would allow russian troops to cut off ukrainian forces in bakhmut, which they have been attacking for months. russia could also launch an assault on the key city of kramatorsk. here s our correspondent in kyiv james waterhouse on the significance of capturing soledar to russia. after three days of contradictions, frankly, it seems russia has finally settled on the claim of having taken the regi
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revelations at all a lot of these things were either stated publicly in the past, the recent past by some of the top brass here in kyiv, or they were things that you could simply glean from observing the situation on the battlefield for example, it was pretty much public information when we were speaking to some of the top leadership here in ukraine that this spring offensive, this much he re heralded offensive armed with sophisticated weapons from the west that ukrainians say could push back the russians this is not going to be a cake walk, and that s one of the things we just heard from some of these pentagon leaked documents. also, you know, we heard from officials here in kyiv in just the past couple of weeks that their efforts to try to recruit new soldiers, train them and send them to the front lines have been very challenging, and we just saw proof of that just in the past 24 hours the ukrainian government actually tightened up their regulations when it comes to recruiting and c
justice. mr. thomas is guilty of the crimes of conscripting and enlisting children. reporter: it took the court nearly ten years to get its first conviction. thomas le banger of the democratic republic of congo sentenced for his role in recruiting child soldiers. many icc cases have focused on african states, prompting criticism of disproportionality. libya s former leader, muammar gaddafi, was charged with crimes against humanity in 2011. we send clear signals to cria or elsewhere. you cannot gain power or retain
one thing zelenskyy has been saying, some version of can you will figure out how much you can give us and what you can do, and give it to us now, because it could change the outcome of the war? for some people, they think the war will go on longer if the west takes its time with this thing. there s a chance that russia could wear the ukrainians down. there several times the size of ukraine. they ve got a lot of people. it s got a lot more soldiers left, but they ve got a lot of people they can keep on conscripting. does this change the outcome of the war for western nations and nato nations to accelerate the speed of which they provide arms to ukraine? the russians can keep adding more and more weapons and troops to the board. the point is that if the ukrainians get all of these weapons now, they can, in fact, and, one hopes, the war and when. whereas the drip, drip, drip approach means the russians keep adding, they get a little bit from the west, and the russians at more. maybe the